"The only thing I was glad we were going for was that we should be under Mr.M'Alaster, who is very pleasant, and quite understands my case, while Dr.Wade does not seem to understand it at all, and is always so very brusque and unsympathetic." There was a general smile.
"Wade is worth a hundred of M'Alaster," Captain Roberts said.

"There is not a man out here I would rather trust myself to if I were ill.

He is an awfully good fellow, too, all round, though he may be, as you say, a little brusque in manner." "I call him a downright bear," Mrs.Rintoul said angrily.

"Why, only last week he told me that if I would get up two hours earlier and go for a brisk walk just after sunrise, and give up eating meat at tiffin, and confine myself to two or three dishes at dinner, I should be perfectly well in the course of a month; just as if I was in the habit of overeating myself, when I have scarcely the appetite of a sparrow.

I told Captain Rintoul afterwards that I must consult someone else, for that really I could not bear such rudeness." "I am afraid we are all against you, Mrs.Rintoul," Mrs.Doolan said, with a little shake of her head at Isobel, who was, she saw, going to speak out strongly.